R squared A: Learning Persona Policies Through Persona Representation Learning and Runtime Alignment

arXiv:2608.29798 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-30

Updated: 2026-08-30

Terminology

• Alignment — 41× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Representation Learning — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 25× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstention — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• GRPO — 4× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Mean Turn of Flip — 3× in this paper
• Ablation Studies — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accountability — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Group Relative Policy Optimization — 1× in this paper
• Inspired by the Persona Selection Model — 1× in this paper
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sycophancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Two-stage training — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Missing Premise exacerbates Overthinking: Are Reasoning Models losing Critical Thinking Skill?
• DeepMath-103K: A Large-Scale, Challenging, Decontaminated, and Verifiable Mathematical Dataset for Advancing Reasoning
• AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions
• QuestBench: Can LLMs ask the right question to acquire information in reasoning tasks?
• ClarifyMT-Bench: Benchmarking and Improving Multi-Turn Clarification for Conversational Large Language Models
• DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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